Welcome to Good Mythical More. Today we’re gonna get existential by state. We know, we have the data. – Yep. – We have the knowledge. Yep. Or our crew does, we don’t. Stevie, you’ve been entrusted with this knowledge of what is the most popular existential question by state. Without a doubt. It’s true. We have it. No, no, like? We have it. Disclaimers. No disclaimers. Like maybe we have, we’re wrong. What people in each state question existentially the most. – According to some source that. – According to Stevie. I’m gonna tell you about the source and what their data is. Oh, great. According to Stevie. But first, let’s donate $1,000 to vote.org to aid in their mission to build best in class, culturally competent programs, cutting edge voter tools, and high profile partnerships to reach and empower voters across America, especially historically underserved voters of color and underrepresented young voters. You can join us in donating at vote.org/donate But if, you know what? If you don’t donate, just donate your vote by voting. Just vote. Vote. Come on over. I will. As soon as I roll this. See how I do this? I roll this. And then I settle in. Okay, so, our, our data providers. Yeah, cause I go like this. To grab the thing. And then I pull it over. And then I push. And then I scoot up. I never noticed that. All right. Digital Third Coast. That’s the name of that. The data providers. And they said. That’s legit. We analyzed more than 8,500 Google search terms to identify the top “exocen” – Everyone’s having trouble. – Existential. Existential. Everyone’s having word, word trouble. I can’t do it. Questions. People are asking the search, the search engine. By everyone you mean Stevie and Davin? Amy had trouble with it. I remember that. Yeah. Right at the beginning of the day. Y’all can’t say existential? Exist, existential. Here’s the thing. Davin has an excuse. Okay? This is his second language. Yeah. Okay? Existential. There we go. I have so many existential questions that I, there’s many words that I can’t say, but I can say that one because I’m constantly in an existential crisis. Are you? Yeah. I can feel one coming on sometimes and then I’m just like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Take a nap. Eat a, eat a snack. Go, go for, go for a bike ride. Take a nap, eat a snack. Like, it’s very easy. You feel a crisis coming on so you are able to take a nap? An existential crisis. That’s not usually how people work. Like what, like, is more than half of my life over? What’s the point? Take a nap. Take a nap, take a snack. Take a bike ride. Take a snack. Okay. Okay. Only one state’s most popular existential question was, do animals have souls? Do animals have souls? Which state was it? Okay. Is this going to be? – They don’t, first of all. – Logical? Except for my dogs. You could make a case, I’d say. This is a place in which there are a lot of animals. There might be interaction with animals. Cause I was gonna say I was gonna say Alaska. Was the first thing that I was gonna say. Because you’re hunting a lot. And you’re, and like, you’re like. Well, it needs to be a place where you believe that humans have souls first, right? Which is every state, probably. The majority of people believe that. Yeah, but like, but for it to be the most popular existential question, like, when you’ve moved on from answering, like, the weightiest existential questions to just, like, the pet version? You’re saying that this is probably a place that’s more religious? Yes, because they think they’ve answered the bigger questions, and now they’re moving on to the pet questions. So this is a southern state where there’s lots of animals. This is Louisiana. Louisiana has a lot of bugs. I think they got more animals per square mile. And, and, like exotic animals. But not as many as Florida, but Florida’s got better questions than that. That’s, you’re, you’re guessing together? No. Yeah. I’m, I think it’s Tennessee. It’s Alaska. Oh, Rhett! I was right to begin with! Do animals have souls? You talked me out of it, man. They’re hunting, they see animals die a lot up there, and then you’re like, at your own hand is what I’m saying. They’re like, hunting culture is big up there. So you’re like. Well, you nailed it. We are all just eating animals and not thinking at all about the fact that it was an animal. We never met the animal. We had no relationship with animal. We didn’t see the animal die. But if you watch an animal die. Yeah. You’re like, you got a soul? Animal got a soul? And you’re like. Did I just send that animal to heaven? I don’t want to think about that. I’ll just eat a snack. I’ll eat this animal. Right. Right. That’s what Link would do. See, but it’s a Pavlov hierarchy of needs. See, it’s like needing to eat, needing to sleep, needing to ride a bike. These are things that are, that are like more immediate needs, so if I, if I go after those things It’s like I’m surviving. And I’m like, okay, I’m okay. I have food. I have shelter. I have a nice place to nap. See, it’s, it makes sense. And might I just add, while we’re asking the question. So does Tennessee, I think. I would say, either animals have souls or they don’t. And if animals do have souls, humans have souls, and if humans have souls, animals have souls. The idea that humans have souls and animals don’t have souls, which is probably the predominant opinion of people who believe in souls, that makes no sense. We don’t have to get into why. I’m just telling you, just think about it a little bit. I believe that humans have souls just so when Christy says, do you believe I’m your soulmate? I can honestly say yes. That’s the only reason. Only reason. Next. We were meant for each other. Fill in the blank to the most existential question most popular in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Washington. Oh, they all have this? Washington state? Washington state has got some. Louisiana, Alabama. And? – Washington. – Arkansas. Outside of Seattle, Washington is pretty country. What is blank? What is blank? That’s their question. What is blank? What is life? What is life is what I was thinking. What is, if it’s not that, we’ll keep guessing. Yeah. What is? God. No, it wouldn’t be what is God. What is is cryptocurrency. Don’t quite get it. Alabama, Arkansas. It makes me sad what the answer is. What is love? Yep. Baby don’t hurt me. – What is love? – What is love? What is love? A sweet old fashioned notion. Love is a verb. We’ve taken a turn. Love is a. Love is a verb. Love is a feeling. Let’s move, okay, this is better. This is, this survey considered, so I’m sorry, you wanted to? I’m still thinking, if humans have souls, it doesn’t mean that animals have souls. Humans have consciousness. Okay. And if you can birth a consciousness, why can’t you birth a soul? Okay, the distinction that you perceive between your consciousness, and an animal’s unconsciousness is only based in the fact that you are a human. There is no qualitative difference in the nature of your consciousness from a dolphin, from a whale, from a chimpanzee. It may be a matter of degree, but it is not a, it is not a qualitative difference. But there’s a, there’s a line that you cross. In your, you know why? You perceive that there’s a line that you cross. – Because I’m on the other side of it. – Because you’re on the other side of the line that you created. To create a category. Boys, this is Good Mythical More. How could I create, how could I create that line if I didn’t have a consciousness? Or a soul. Mate. There’s no, I’ve not seen anyone ever point to a qualitative difference in the consciousness of people. It’s a matter of degree. It’s all electricity. You are an advanced animal. Thank you. You’re an advanced animal. You’re a primate. There’s no qualitative difference. There’s a quantitative difference. There’s not a qualitative difference. This survey considered, what should I have for dinner to be an existential question. Which two states? What two states? I literally am not finished saying the words. What should I have for dinner? Which two states was that question most popular in? What should I have for dinner? I mean, I guess, is that it’s an existential question in that it allows you to exist. This has got to be a place that has lots of choices. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. California. This is, this is, New England, California and New York. I like your line of reasoning. It’s kind of the opposite though. I would consider these to be two places where there’s probably not a lot of choice. Dakotas. Close. Idaho. You’re in like, for one of them, you’re in the right area. Minnesota. Oh, no. Colorado. Montana. Yeah. Colorado, Montana, and what’s the third state you’d say in that grouping? Well, I said Idaho. Utah? New Mexico? No, we’re down too far. What’s? What’s up there? I’m just gonna think about cowboys. Wyoming. I thought we said Wyoming already. Oh, we didn’t say Wyoming already? No. Wyoming is one and then the other one is. What should I have for dinner? From this chuck wagon. And the other one. It’s northeast. Way northeast. Maine. Yep. Maine wants to know what I want for dinner? Why would that be a question in Maine? Because they’re atheists, man. Because you got lobsters, and you got moose. And that’s enough, that’s plenty. You gotta make a choice between those two things every day. Am I gonna eat moose or lobsters? Do they eat moose? I don’t think they eat the moose. Heck yeah, they eat the moose. They eat the moose? Dude, do they? Bison isn’t a moose. A moose will feed your Maine family. And your neighbors for a year. Yeah, but, so it’s like venison. Moose meat, yeah. I don’t recall them selling that when I went up there. Where’s Lily? No, no, no, they don’t sell it. Lily Cousins, she been eating moose? A moose steak? Lean meat, man. Yeah, way better for you than that. Ride a moose, save a cowboy. – That’s what I’d say. – Grain fed, fatty. Or a Mountie. Feed like cows. Ride a moose, save a Mountie. Okay. Okay, we’re back in, or continuing in, not as deep questions, I will say. Colorado and Virginia’s most popular existential question is one that hits very close to home. What is it? Where am I? Why doesn’t traditional entertainment? How does that hit close to home? Because if you’re at home, it’s very close. No, close to you. Close to home. Do I have friends? – What is. – Do people like me? What is comedy? What? What is funny? Am I funny? Am I funny? Am I popular? Do people like me? Those kinds of questions that we ask ourselves all the time? A lot of insight here. But no, it. Is there something in my teeth? Think more in terms of, like, Mythical. Mythical. Am I real? Are monsters real? It’s actually a question that’s also a name of a series that we make. Is a hot dog a sandwich? There we go. I was gonna say, like is my kitchen mythical? Where in Virginia and? Colorado. Colorado? Is a hot dog a sandwich? Wow, there’s, so, boy, in Virginia? Colorado kinda makes sense. I think it just went kinda viral at the time of them taking their data in those particular states. You know, it kinda like, it went through their state wide TikTok. Yeah, they kinda ruined it for me. Which question is the top question of more states? Is there a god? Or, what came first, the chicken or the egg? People don’t like to search, is there a god. Cause, you don’t really wanna know. You think you wanna know, but you don’t. You don’t wanna know. It’s just a fun little thing to Google about the chicken and the egg, so I think, yeah. I think. There’s no stakes in knowing that. Yeah, I think that people do want to know if there’s a God, but I don’t know if they Google that. You know what I’m saying? Right. I think they just like, they just wonder it, wonder it. And they wander. They wander and they wonder. Well, all who wander are not lost. I’m with Link on this one. Chicken and egg. You are wrong. Oh, you got us. Oh, people are Googling it. Is there a god? Is four states, chicken or the egg is three states. Okay, so it’s pretty dang close. Yeah. Okay. Just one state. Is there a chicken or a god? Is God a chicken? Okay, what is the most searched existential question overall? What happens after you die? Oh, that’s a good, that’s good, no. – Really? – Does size matter? The most searched existential question. What is the purpose of life? Is Jesus? That is number three. Blue eyed, blond? That’s number three? Yeah, number three is what is the meaning of life? What happens after I die is not? Oddly, yeah, it’s not in the top ten questions. Is it about ghosts? Something about ghosts? Like, are ghosts real? Oh, no, no, no, that’s not in the. Is oral sex? What? Is oral sex? You know what I mean. Dot, dot, dot. Is it about magic? I think people were searching this because they have been asked this question and did not know the answer. Because there is an actual answer to this question. In fact, the people who are searching this, I believe, are parents who are searching this. Is my, is my kid a bad seed? You think that then they would receive a scientific answer back? What’s the worst curse word? What? They were asking this question about their own children? Their children are asking them. Why is the sky blue? There you go. That’s not an existential question. No, it’s not. That’s a scientific question. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn’t count. This whole episode. Doesn’t count. This whole conversation doesn’t count. Third wheel, what was it? Third coast? Completely illegitimate. Oh, Digital Third Coast, yeah. Yeah, third wheel. What’s the second question? Who’s my mommy? Where’s my mommy? It’s so broad, I don’t understand really why it would be the second question. Usually you would Google a more specific question about these things, like. What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? It’s not specific. Is oral sex? Well, sometimes if you wake up in the morning, and you’re really shook by something that. Are my dreams real? Is my nightmare real? It has to do with dreams. And it’s very broad. Why dream? What are dreams? Got dreams? What do dreams mean? What do dreams mean? What do dreams mean? Are dreams sex? Okay. In no way do I self-proclaim to be the oracle of skateboarding. You literally introduced yourself to me as the oracle of skateboarding. You said, hi, I’m Tony Hawk, the oracle of skateboarding. And I was like, this guy really looks like Tony Hawk. Exactly.